Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-04-23
CORRESPONDING
A PRISONER OF UAR.
CAMP KooKERLY, April 20, Is

CAMP KooKERLY, April 20, 1887.
To the MINING JOURNAL.
Drot these here measly pollitix, |
haint had Il minuet's peece sense kut
luse frum the doOk, an ef he wood dis
charg the leftennant an put him on the
kullured list, as the minurs sa, destrik
no. Two will jine forces with him agin.
startid fur Frostberg too meat Po-
lttikle Jim cordn to contrack in mi las
lettur, AN jist as the trane puld inter
kumberlan whoo shood | Sc at the
kween City hotall but the dook an his
leftenent i histed the Winder, as
soomed mi sweetest smile and waived
on the dook too cum ovur, but nary
kun. it peard too NEE like hee dident
no me. phelt sortcr kut up an wus
tryen too think what mout be the caws
wen | seed the docks leftennant qwit
the docks eide an make ded start fer
NEE, an soonern wot | wanted node
sumthin wus acomin. He shuck mi
han like | wuz his warmist fren with
the yusuwal ackumpannyment uv"hou
doc 700 doc" Then hee lit inter me
at the dadburndest raft like this:
'Sa, sugar, taint know use yore
winkin an ablinkin at the dook emmy
moro hese red awl yore peeces in the
JURNAL, an yule nevur git on the rite
eide NV hiz nachur agin.
$50 yoo wood like too Sc NEE an ole
Polittikkle jim lok horns, wood yu
Wei, eff the kookerly pharm phorces
don't kapchur an throttel yu fur ritin
fur that ar JURNEL, then Jim and 700
S1ri1 Inv I,at
has got tide in numbur leven dcestrik.
lie let yu thro in yor" noknede oxin,
spavend mewl an phistelode hoss, an
Polittickle jim kin go to Riehmund,
brace up on Hill, an thinner doun on
coax, an wen the mex primary kumS
rown it vii bee phive delleegits frum
number =, an mapul Shoog wont be |.
boo yoo heer the trane goln Goodby,
mister Mapul sugar, beathead, snukcs,
ia, ia luz too Jim, good bi, ira la !"
Crate pistols, but | wuS mad ! \
passinger goin home tco Sinsinnatty,
whose ize lookd like tina wus skawlded,
asst me too bee komposed, an offurd me
sumthin he sed wood settel mi nervs.
i tux sum, an jist as he sed, composd
kwite rapidly an soon phelt that |
had no ennemy in the wide wurld.
/ Wus soon in good umer, an sed l.:
''Wot a blessin IL tie peece manu-
fakturerm
Yes" sed mi bennyfaktur "we
Good not git along without him in ole
Slnsinnatti."
at is q owtrajus pity" sed i, "that
more Nv him kannot be introduced be-
tune the nashuns wich Is at war over
the koockerly pharm."
Jist then the whissel blode and the
trane begin to slak up, an wus maxim
preparrashuns to git off bephore the
trane stopt rite in the middul NV the
sect Nv war, wen my nupAound friend
sed:
Don't do that yu ar stranger in
these heer phortiphikashuns an yu mite
be hung, draun an kwartered fer spi.
Cum with NEE to piedmOunt, whar i
shil sta awl mite at Capting entler's
Sims hous, the best hotel outen good
ole Sinnsinatty !"
1t wus awlamOst two much phcr NEE
too resist. But sed:
mo, mi friend dooty bephour plez
ure. i must git off heer an talk mi
chanses. Hopin wele mete agin, ime
yorcs trooly."
jumpd off, thinkiu | wood snook
roam the outcide pikkets an maik IL
strate streek pher phrosberg. ihadent
gon 10 distans wen mi har stood on
eend an mi nese shuck jist like | had
the DUN pheever an def ager. a skum-
misher jumpd up frum behine stump
an pintld u kannon rite at mi vitil parts
an YIELD:
Halt ye spalpene, or biggorry Its
mate yele bee for the buszurds bephore
3 phlaps NV ded lam's tale Rite
abowt face, glide left, march, an stop
feminist hinekwarters, ye purity loOkin
specimint nv elk Gardin galloot try
in too surrown this heer kamp Git !"
Mister editur, eft this heer evickshun,
koershun, erinGobraw Sojer don't shoot
me, an i don't glt hung bephore git
owt nv this skrape, lie let yoo no next